"Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter, a true-born king of men." In 1879, at an unveiling in Boston of Freedman's Memorial Statue, a duplicate of the original in Lincoln Square, Washington, a poem was read from Whittier, of which the last three stanzas are the most significant in their characterization. It beautifully expresses the faith that in righteousness is personal power, even as it also "exalteth a nation." "We rest in peace where these sad eyes Saw peril, strife and pain; His was the nation's sacrifice, And ours the priceless gain. "O, symbol of God's will on earth As it is done above! Bear witness to the cost and worth Of justice and of love. "Stand in thy place and testify To coming ages long, That truth is stronger than a lie, And righteousness than wrong." III. SOME TYPICAL EXAMPLES GIVING VIEWS OF LINCOLN'S LIFE Vachel Lindsay invokes the spirit of American patriotism when he says, "Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all, That which is gendered in the wilderness, From lonely prairies and God's tenderness. Imperial soul, star of a weedy stream, Born where the ghosts of buffaloes still dream, Whose spirit hoof-beats storm above his grave, About that breast of earth and prairie-fire-- Fire that freed the slave." Herr Loewes in the Prussian Parliament said: "Mr. Lincoln performed his duties without pomp or ceremony, and relied on that dignity of the inner self alone, which is far above rank, orders and titles. He was a faithful servant, not less of his own country than of civilization, freedom and humanity." Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing of Lincoln's death, said: "Dear Lord, with pitying eye behold, This martyr generation, Which Thou, through trials manifold, Art showing Thy salvation! O let the blood by murder spilt Wash out Thy stricken children's guilt, And sanctify our nation!" Samuel Francis Smith, author of the national hymn, "America," in a long poetic tribute wrote: "Grandly he loved and lived; Not his own age alone Bears the proud impress of his sovereign mind. Down the long march of history, Ages and men shall see What one great soul can be What one great soul can do To make a nation true." Horace Fiske closed a poem inspired by the Saint Gaudens statue, as follows: "In human strength he towers almost divine, His mighty shoulders bent with breaking care, His thought-worn face with sympathies grown fine: And as men gaze, their hearts as oft declare That this is he whom all their hearts enshrine---- This man that saved a race from slow despair."